Improved bed-bottom



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Leim Paten N .106,666, ema August 23,1870.

.IMPRQVED BED-BOTTOM.

The Schedule referred` to in theseLetiers Patent and making part et the same,

4To (dln-ham it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADON W. CuAMnR, of Honesdale, in the county of Wayne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new andV improved Bed-Bottom; and I do hereby declare the following to be a.

l'ull and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawing makingr part ot' this specification, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, in which- Figure l represents a perspective view ot' the bedstead, showing the foot-board removed, and part of the side broken away, so as to expose the arrangement of the device;l

Figure 2 represents the manner' inI which the slats ure secured iu the wire rods Figure 3 represents the end of n. slat g ,and

Figure 4 represents one of the eccentric supporting bolts.

My invention relates to that class of' hed-bottoms designated suspended spring' bottoms.

4It is strong and simple in construction, and con- 'sists in two endless wires, which are suspended tothe inside of the siderails of the hedstead by means of four eccentric screw-bolts secured therein. These wires. are wound around the slats, so as to secure them thcrein.

In the accompanying drawing- A represents the head of the bedstead. B B the side rails. G, the slats, and o,`their grooved ends. D D are the wire links.

d d, their tightening hooks.

E are the eccentric headed screw-bolts, which snpport the links D D, and

e e are square projections on the head of these bolts, by means ot' which they arescrewed into the rails B. The operation of'iny improvement is as follows:

The slats O are inserted iu the -linksD D, as shown, andthe eccentric-headed screw-bolts E turned until their eccentrics face each other; the links D D are then hung upon these bolts, and the belts turned so as to reverse the position ot' their ect-entries, which draws the links D D taut, and into the grooves in the. slats C, and in the heads ot' the bolts E. The hooks (l (l admit of the slats() being removed from thelinks D D, without the turning of-the eccentric bolts E E,

and also assist in keeping the same tant. It will bel noticed that by this arrangement of the slats in the iinks, the strain is equally dii-fused over the whole of' the same.

Having thus fully described the nature, construciou, and ope-ration ot' mypinventiou,

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Suspendimjr a hed-bottom, constructed as herein described, in a bedstead, by means ot' the eccentricheaded screw-bolts E, and thesidc rails B B, as herein set 'orthand described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing bed-bote tom, I have hereunto set my hand, this 19t-h day ot March, `1870.

A. W. GRAMER. Witnesses:

J No. MoINTosu, Jos. B. Lesen; 

